The Fuenlabrada City Council, in collaboration with the local Hoteliers Association, organizes a new edition of the Tortilla Fair from this Thursday until Sunday March 12, coinciding with the celebration of ‘Santa Juana Day’, better known as ‘Tortilla Day’.
Nearly fifty local catering establishments have signed up for this initiative organized to promote local restaurants and local consumption, the mayor of Economic Development, Soledad Martín, indicated this Thursday in the presentation of the Fair.
Specifically, the registered bars and restaurants will offer, at the price of 2 euros, an omelette tapa and, optionally, up to two more tapas whose main ingredient is eggs, potatoes, or both.
Fuenlabreños and Fuenlabreñas will rate the tortillas or tapas tasted in each establishment by digital voting.
The seven first prizes of the Fair will come out of these votes: one for the best tortilla and six for the best tapa made with eggs or potatoes in each district meeting.
People who vote for pinchos and tapas will take part in a draw for five lunches or dinners worth 50 euros in one of the participating establishments.
On the other hand, the City Council finalizes the festive day for next Saturday the 11th, which will begin with the brass band that will animate the most central streets of the city, to give way to aperitif time with the tasting of the traditional potato omelette, with a giant tortilla of about 1,000 servings.
“We want all the neighbors to come to this space to try the giant tortilla that we will make with 200 kilos of potatoes and 1,500 eggs. We will distribute around a thousand portions among the audience to celebrate this Fuenlabreña tradition in style” , they insist from the City Council.
In addition to the tortilla tasting, which will take place in the Plaza de España, the concert of ‘The Golden Age of Spanish Pop’ will end the party.
The Day of Santa Juana -as it was called before- or Tortilla Day -as it is known today- is a tradition that dates back to the 15th century when the inhabitants of Fuenlabrada went on a pilgrimage to the municipality of Cubas de la Sagra (Madrid ) to venerate Juana Vázquez.
Years later, already in the 19th century, it is when the pilgrimage acquires its current character and begins to be celebrated in the area of ??Valdeserrano, a custom that has spread to different enclaves of the municipality and that is already “a hallmark of the city” that seeks to be declared a Festival of Regional Tourist Interest.
